Tap at Rattle’n’Hum. I should have stopped before I hit the flight of 10% Winter Warmers after 12 other CCB beers, but I did not. Big, spicy, herbal aroma, with toast, lemon, vanilla. Full, brandy-forward flavor, wort, caramel, cookie. Spicing is mild and complimentary.

Draft at the CCB event at Rattle n Hum. Poured a very ugly mudy brown body that looks like it was poured out of a dump bucket at the end of a tasting. The aroma was nicely complex with notes of perfume, flowers, coriander, syrup, honey, citrus rind all coming together in a cloying sweet aromatic enigma. Medium bodied with small bubbly carbonation and a slight touch of alcohol heat. The flavor is much like the aroma with lots going on....citrus fruit, especially tangerine, honey, perfume, lavender, coriander, wood and grains. Very nice beer and the coriander was not over the top like most winter warmers but more appropriately used as a complimentary aroma/flavor.

Aroma: Coriander is quite noticeable, spice, caramel, citrus, raisin
Appearance: Mahogany-brown color, off-white head
Flavor: Lots of coriander and spice, more citrus hoppy then the regular
Palate: Creamy and smooth, mild alcohol burn
Overall Impression:
This was pretty cool. I tried the regular WWWW first, and then moved on to this one and the Humidor on my next trip to RnH. You can definitely feel the difference that the coriander brings to this one. Pretty good stuff. Quite different then the regular, but the score comes out similarly.

Tap at Rattle n Hum. Poured a cloudy dark tan. Nose is coriander and other interesting spices. A bit sweet fairly spicy and fruity. Some big bitter notes in the finish. Another interesting beer from ccb.

Tap at Rattle n Hum: Muddy purple pour with a fading head. Bright coriander dominates the aroma. Has a sweet floral note as well. A touch plasticy (probably phenols) and a touch of toffee-like maltose. Slick body. The flavor is toffeeish and honey like in it’s richness. The coriander brightens up the high gravity body. A bit oily, one dimensional.

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